The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, better known as COP28, has gotten off to a rocky start this year, after the President of the event held in Dubai, UAE, Sultan al-Jaber, said there is “no science” in trying to phase-out fossil fuel usage. After the comments generated controversy he then attempted to walk them back.
In the lead-up to the event, a Zoom call during a live online event on November 21st for the She Changes Climate event, which depicts al-Jaber arguing with Mary Robinson, the chair of the Elders group and a former UN special envoy for climate change, where the President of the event questioned the repeated calls that phasing-out fossil fuels would reduce the earth’s temperature by 1.5 degrees.
Al Jaber is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, Adnoc, which many climate activists see as a contradiction and conflict of interest.
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